What You Will See
We encourage you to do more than just run up the famous steps, Rocky Balboa-style. Enter the museum itself and discover a wonderland of treasures including masterworks by Peale and Eakins, elaborately decorated Philadelphia furniture, Ruben's Prometheus Bound, Renoir's The Bathers, Van Gogh's Sunflowers, Picasso's Three Musicians, Faith Ringgold's Tar Beach 2, a Japanese teahouse, Rodin sculptures... the list goes on and on.

The museum's collection includes:

• American Art (including the most important collection in the world of works by Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins)
• Costume and Textiles (including a celebrated collection of Oriental carpets)
• East Asian and Middle Eastern Art:
• European Decorative Arts and Sculpture (incuding Arms and Armor, and a suite of 18th-century Franch interiors)
• European Paintings Before 1900:
• Indian and Himalayan Art
• Prints, Drawings and Photographs
• Twentieth-Century Art (including works by Picasso, Braque, Matisse, and Duchamp)

Getting There
By car, take I-95 or the Schuylkill Expressway (Route 76) to Route 676. Exit at the Museum Area Exit (westbound) or the 22nd Street Exit (eastbound). Turn onto 22nd Street and proceed to Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Turn left onto the Parkway. Turn left at the first light at 25th Street.

By bus, take SEPTA bus #7, 32, 38, 43, 48 or 76.

More detailed directions and maps useful for both driving and taking public transportation are available on the Museum's web site.

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